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Frantic
Registered: Mar 2003
Posts: 1646 |
longest scrolltext record on c64?
Sorry if this topic has been covered before, but I couldn't find it..
Who has the current scrolltext record on c64? (The longest scrolltext... preferably loading only once.)
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CyberBrain
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Posts: 392 |
It's definately not the longest, since some demos have had scrolls that fills more than 64k. I think i remember a crest demo that had a scroll taking $18000 bytes. |
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CyberBrain
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Posts: 392 |
Oh, guess that's the one Earthshaker was talking about :) |
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QuasaR
Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 145 |
Yep, McDonald's Land /CREST had a very long scroller WITHOUT loading... With quite a lot of XX-stuff inside... Quite confusing for a growing up teen which I was when I first read it and just get the half of the content... =8) But I've heard the one in Fruit of the loom has a longer one, but I'm not sure... |
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QuasaR
Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 145 |
...by the way: Size doens't matter! ;) |
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VoDKa
Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 32 |
If my memmory serves me right, the part in Crest-demo was a collection of texts from small demos called "blowjob" 1-4.
Any yes, read the entire text too. In the end you get the password "clockwork", witch gets you unlimited credits in the resturant.
About scrolltext: The 1:st time I spoke to King Fisher/Triad, he told me he had read ALL texts in the "Spik i foten"-serie, witch only consist of drunken crap-texts. Since then he is always greeted in the end of all partyscrollers from Booze Design.
Offtopic, but I think too that scrolltext-wrighting is a forgoten form of art. |
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TDJ
Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 1879 |
Quote: If my memmory serves me right, the part in Crest-demo was a collection of texts from small demos called "blowjob" 1-4.
Any yes, read the entire text too. In the end you get the password "clockwork", witch gets you unlimited credits in the resturant.
About scrolltext: The 1:st time I spoke to King Fisher/Triad, he told me he had read ALL texts in the "Spik i foten"-serie, witch only consist of drunken crap-texts. Since then he is always greeted in the end of all partyscrollers from Booze Design.
Offtopic, but I think too that scrolltext-wrighting is a forgoten form of art.
Clockwork .. the name of the company I work for .. coincedence? I think not!
And yes, scrolltext-writing is a forgotten art-form, for me it was the main reason to learn coding on c64.
Soon, soon I'll show my power again. Watch out for the 'resurrection' :) |
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CyberBrain
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Posts: 392 |
That Crest-demo is here: McDonald's Restaurant |
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Cruzer
Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 1048 |
It can't be that hard to make a scrolltext that fills several times the C64's memory. In everyday English there's only about 4000 words used IIRC, and if you pack them so each letter takes 6 bits and they are on average 5 letters long that means 3K are used for all the words. Then you just need 12 bits (2^12=4096) for each word in the scroll, which means about 40000 words, or if they are 5 letters on average each, a 200K scroll. Only problem: writing all that text while limiting yourself to the same 4000 words. |
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Cruzer
Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 1048 |
Oops... 3K for 4000 words might be a little too little. 15K was what I meant! :) |
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Richard
Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 621 |
What about Babygang's 'World's Longest Scroller?' :) |
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